Jeremiah 9:1
O that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me continually, “Where is thy God?”
Psalms 119:136Rivers of water run down mine eyes, Because men keep not thy law.
Isaiah 22:4Therefore, say I, look away from me, that I may weep bitterly; Strive not to comfort me for the desolation of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 4:19O my breast, my breast! I am pained in the walls of my heart; My heart trembleth within me; I cannot be silent; For thou hearest, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war!
Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, And roll thyself in ashes! Make thee mourning as for an only son, Most bitter lamentation! For suddenly shall the spoiler come upon us.
Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear, I will mourn in secret places for your pride, I will weep continually, And my eyes shall run down with tears, Because the flock of Jehovah is carried away captive.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:1
In this chapter the prophet goes on faithfully to reprove sin and to threaten God's judgments for it, and yet bitterly to lament both, as one that neither rejoiced at iniquity nor was glad at calamities. I. He here expresses his great grief for the miseries of Judah and Jerusalem, and his detestation of their sins, which brought those miseries upon them, ver. 1-11 . II. He justifies God in the greatness of the destruction brought upon them, ver. 9-16 . III. He calls upon others to bewail the woeful case of Judah… Read the whole commentary →